Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome,
Speaker 1: and it's time now for our community connection. Maryland Man
Speaker 1: with okam music is here and my goodness sakes, mary Lynn,
Speaker 1: you had a busy, busy, busy Chris Kendle Mark, it
Speaker 1: was beautiful.
Speaker 2: We did, Tom. Unfortunately the weather ended up cooperating. We
Speaker 2: moved it inside anyway, except for the kids jumpy. But
Speaker 2: we had our biggest turnout ever with just around one
Speaker 2: thousand people. It was insane.
Speaker 1: It was vendor mania in there. I mean, wow, you
Speaker 1: had so many booths and so much selection that that
Speaker 1: was so unbelievably well put together.
Speaker 2: Oh thank you, Tom. We had a really good time
Speaker 2: doing it. I think all the vendor feedback we got
Speaker 2: was really positive. Vendors, you know, had a good time
Speaker 2: showing off their hand crafted items and merch. We had
Speaker 2: a new knack vendor that was extremely popular, and so
Speaker 2: everyone was excited to try all of his cities and
Speaker 2: just wonderful homemade goods from like melodies create a cuisine.
Speaker 2: We had, of course, themes of prices, meat market, wonderful
Speaker 2: ham and beans and just chicken and dumplings and all
Speaker 2: kinds of good, hearty false food and so yeah, it
Speaker 2: was a really nice time. I want to thank all
Speaker 2: of our sponsors who made it possible and thank the
Speaker 2: community for coming out. We have a lot of news
Speaker 2: people who came from out of town from Kansas o
Speaker 2: Watso told the Jeans Broken Arrow to give you guys
Speaker 2: a shout out. I think I went through the Green
Speaker 2: Country tickets steel about it. I don't know at least
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty times where I would help people
Speaker 2: to go get with their Green tickets and they would
Speaker 2: have this blank look and I would say, you're not
Speaker 2: from here, and they would be like, no, listen, Jeans,
Speaker 2: or we're from a wato and I'd be like, okay,
Speaker 2: here's what Green Country tickets are and you don't even
Speaker 2: have to be seven to win. I saw the basket
Speaker 2: of Green Country tickets that we were able to give
Speaker 2: out with all of the shopping done, and it was
Speaker 2: a lot, so I think it would have filled a
Speaker 2: small trash can. So it was pretty exciting.
Speaker 1: That's great. You know, we put them all in a
Speaker 1: big dumpster. We let Kevin go through them on I know,
Speaker 1: we got a big event coming up on Friday at
Speaker 1: Ambler Hall.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, we have so many things coming up
Speaker 2: at the end of the year it's insane. But yes,
Speaker 2: on Friday, November twenty second, we have our mostly Mozart
Speaker 2: concert with Katie Mayhan and we're so excited to have
Speaker 2: her back. Katie has performed for us at two different
Speaker 2: festivals and she's just lovely. She's born in America from Colorado,
Speaker 2: however she lives in Austria. In fact, she lives two
Speaker 2: doors down where Mozart grew up, and so we always
Speaker 2: love having Katie backs not only perform, but to enlighten
Speaker 2: nots on what else she has learned about the life
Speaker 2: and the daily routine of Mozart is pretty fantastic. So yeah,
Speaker 2: if people are interested in hearing a beautiful concert, she
Speaker 2: will be playing Mozart, Beethoven and paying attribute to first
Speaker 2: one and so I think it's going to be a
Speaker 2: very lovely concert. It will be at Ambler Hall, which
Speaker 2: is located at forthusteen South Dewey. It'll be in our
Speaker 2: nice little performance hall. It's at seven o'clock and you
Speaker 2: can get tickets by coming to the office at again
Speaker 2: forthisteen Southduy, or you can call us at nine one
Speaker 2: eight see six nine nine zulos zero and ask for
Speaker 2: Rose and Mary Lynn and we'll tell your tickets. Or
Speaker 2: you can go on to our website at OPM music
Speaker 2: dot org and you can go to hashtag giving Tuesday
Speaker 2: and buy your tickets from there. It's going to be
Speaker 2: a wonderful evening. She's also going to be giving a
Speaker 2: lecture earlier that day at noon, and so if you
Speaker 2: want to come by, it's free. You're welcome to come
Speaker 2: at noon again at Ambler Hall, Katie will be talking
Speaker 2: about the life of Mozart. We do have two different
Speaker 2: options on tickets. We have our general admission which is fifty.
Speaker 2: We have a VIP experience which is one hundred, which
Speaker 2: gets you lunch at her talk as well as it
Speaker 2: will get you a nice little bits from the sugar
Speaker 2: Plum Score and reserve seating. So if anyone's interested in
Speaker 2: that again, just check us out on the website at
Speaker 2: sem music dot org. If it's a call nine winning
Speaker 2: three six nine nine uros zero, or stop by it
Speaker 2: for sixteen secd and come see us. I think it's
Speaker 2: going to be a beautiful evening.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a wonderful evening, and
Speaker 1: I would encourage you folks to get your tickets now
Speaker 1: while you still got tickets to as well.
Speaker 2: That is that is true. They they started. It's funny.
Speaker 2: We've been telling them for about six weeks now, and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden this week it's started going crazy
Speaker 2: and the ticket sales are going nicely and we hope
Speaker 2: to be completely filled at the Brim with eighty guests.
Speaker 2: It is a smaller venue which makes it much more intimate.
Speaker 2: It's beautiful. It will be a very nice, lovely, blacking
Speaker 2: evening filled with of course beautiful pieces again by Mozart
Speaker 2: basis an in Bershlin. You'll be able to meet Katie
Speaker 2: afterwards and ask her questions, and then again we want
Speaker 2: people to come to the luncheon where she's going to
Speaker 2: get her talk. She has a really nice flight show
Speaker 2: that she shows you all over Austria and this to
Speaker 2: the background behind the side and his compositions and his
Speaker 2: family and his sister and all of those wonderful things.
Speaker 2: It's a really great presentation. I think anyone would like it,
Speaker 2: and we hope that that everyone will come out. Of course,
Speaker 2: this entire concert is our hashtag Getting Tuesday concert. It's
Speaker 2: a little early because we try to accommodate to these
Speaker 2: schedule She is on a final way tour in America
Speaker 2: right now, and so to make it easier on her
Speaker 2: so she could get back to Austria, we went ahead
Speaker 2: and bunted up hashtag getting Tuesdays won't theoretically fall until
Speaker 2: the Tuesday after Thanksgitting, so we're having ours a little
Speaker 2: bit early, which means this is our fundraiser, just to
Speaker 2: bring awareness to the arts and get some posts out
Speaker 2: to support us so that we can continue bringing wonderful
Speaker 2: concerts and music educational programming through those in Buglesville.
Speaker 1: We've also got the big Saint Nicholas to do coming
Speaker 1: up on December sixth.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and I have to say Tom this weekend, I
Speaker 2: haven't watched TV and I don't know, maybe six months,
Speaker 2: but I just decided to put it on person background
Speaker 2: and guess what. There was a Hallmark movie about a
Speaker 2: German Chris Kendall market, but they also talked a lot
Speaker 2: about Saint Nicholas Day and I loved it. I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, this is so awesome hotbtting. And so
Speaker 2: on December sixth we will be celebrating Saint Nicholas Day.
Speaker 2: For those of you who don't know about Saint Nicholas,
Speaker 2: he is the true, live, real person that we now
Speaker 2: know a Santa Claus, but Saint Nicholas was an actual person.
Speaker 2: He was a saint from the fourth century who has
Speaker 2: become an inspiration to many of us through his kindness
Speaker 2: and generosity. And so again Saint Nicholas will become back
Speaker 2: to Bartlesville. He will be at Ambler Hall on December six,
Speaker 2: and we welcome all of our families and children to
Speaker 2: come out and adults sooop. We will have our sugar
Speaker 2: Plum shop open and we will have some nice sweet
Speaker 2: trees and the kids from Bartlesville High School daub Player
Speaker 2: will be performing some beautiful songs. They will also be
Speaker 2: reading some stories. It starts at six o'clock on December
Speaker 2: six at Ambler Hall and it's free to the public.
Speaker 2: We'll have some art and crops projects. You'll get to
Speaker 2: see Saint Nick if you want to have your picture
Speaker 2: with Saint Nicholas and who's steel free to do that.
Speaker 2: We will also have on this Friday our Saint Nicholas
Speaker 2: bags that we've been doing now for often in those
Speaker 2: fifty seven years will go on sale. Those bags are
Speaker 2: also just in honor of Saint Nicholas Day and it's
Speaker 2: just a way for us to go back to our
Speaker 2: kids and community. The back to ten dollars that they're
Speaker 2: filled with about sixty dollars worth of items. They're filled
Speaker 2: with multiple books, they'll have musical instruments in it, a
Speaker 2: little bit of candy, an orange and a candy cane
Speaker 2: in honor of Saint Nicholas will be in there. Some
Speaker 2: gold chocolate queens will be in there, all kinds of good.
Speaker 2: They'll be like an activity book that you can color
Speaker 2: in and do all kinds of sun games. So they're
Speaker 2: pretty cool bags. Just a fundraisers for us, but it's
Speaker 2: also away for us to get something special backs to
Speaker 2: the kid. We also are very blessed and very excited
Speaker 2: to partner with James Phillips Cool. We help the four
Speaker 2: Gentsis grade through the Voice Scout program. We take each
Speaker 2: of those classes at Saint Nicholas Bag and so every
Speaker 2: student will receive the bag, and that's one of our
Speaker 2: favorite kinds of year is to get to play a
Speaker 2: little bit of Saint Nicholas and taste those bags over there.
Speaker 2: So we encourage everyone to go check out the website
Speaker 2: on Friday, reserve and buy your Saint Nicholas bags. You'll
Speaker 2: be able to pick them up the week of December sixth,
Speaker 2: and we'll have the schedule on the website for you
Speaker 2: to insue all of that. But if that was enough, Pump,
Speaker 2: we also have a concert that is very near and
Speaker 2: deer special to my heart. It is our very musical
Speaker 2: Christmas concert being put on by our very new and
Speaker 2: very exciting Ocean Music Youth Keyboard Orchestra, and that's on
Speaker 2: December thirteenth of this year. That will be at the
Speaker 2: First Presbyterian Church starting at seven. And this is our
Speaker 2: new keyboard orchestra that if you imagine a seventies youth ensemble,
Speaker 2: now you take ten keyboards and these kids learn how
Speaker 2: to play the different instruments and different instruments, fores and
Speaker 2: arrangements to make it sound like you are sitting in
Speaker 2: front of a large symphony. It is pretty darn cool.
Speaker 2: And to our knowledge, we are the only ones definitely
Speaker 2: in this region, but we've sort of seen in the
Speaker 2: United States. I think we are the first youth keyboard
Speaker 2: orchestra and so these guys are going to put on
Speaker 2: a fantastic concert with Chris of songs that everyone loves
Speaker 2: and everyone will recognize, under the instruction of Lucas Steel,
Speaker 2: who was our the loved piano instructor in Bartlefell and
Speaker 2: Kraffee Stewart, who is also amazed at what she does.
Speaker 2: I think she can use it director for first prize.
Speaker 2: But then she also teaches kids and those two together
Speaker 2: are quite a course. So we can't wait to hear
Speaker 2: what they have in source us and see all these kids.
Speaker 2: So you know, please check out the website and come
Speaker 2: down and do the guide performed. That will be our
Speaker 2: finale for the years.
Speaker 1: Wow, why I tell you what didn't ever stops? And
Speaker 1: it's a good thing too because everybody loves music and
Speaker 1: okam does it best. Very lyn Man, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Tell people the website once again so you can find
Speaker 1: out all this information we covered.
Speaker 2: Sure tom okammusic dot org. We try to make it simple.
Speaker 2: You can see on the banner scrolling by all of
Speaker 2: these wonderful events. You can also look at the tabs
Speaker 2: at the top and just click on whatever interests you
Speaker 2: and we hope to see you at all these events.
Speaker 2: They're really special, wonderful and we think it's a good
Speaker 2: way to end our year on a high note.
Speaker 1: Indeed it is, Mary Lynne, thank you very much, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you Tom.
Speaker 1: Alrighty folks, you have been listening to our community connection.
Speaker 1: I'm k